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Installing the Printer Driver Located in the Windows Vista Operating System

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Introduction
There are no drivers to download for your product. However, the Windows Vista operating system installed on your computer contains a basic driver solution for your product.
With the basic driver, the buttons on the product do not function and some of the advanced product features are not available. However, using the workaround procedures in this document, you can still print from a software program. You can also import and view images on a memory card, if your product has a memory card slot.
Use the following instructions to install the basic driver in Windows Vista, and then review the workaround procedures to use the available features for your product.
Installing the printer driver
The method that you use to install the basic Vista driver depends on whether you use a USB cable or a parallel cable to connect the product to the computer. Use the method for your type of cable .
Type of cableComputer end of the cablePeripheral end of the cable
USB cable Computer end of USB cablePeripheral end of USB cable
Parallel cable Computer end of USB cablePeripheral end of USB cable
Method one: USB cable connection
When you connect the product to the computer, Windows Vista detects the hardware and automatically installs the correct driver. A notification lets you know when installation begins and when it is complete. You do not have to download any software or insert the product CD.
  1. Turn the product on.
  2. Connect the Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable to the product and to the computer.
  3. A Your devices are ready to use window might display on the screen. If the window displays and does not close automatically, close the window.
Your basic Vista driver is now installed. Some functions might not be available as they were for Windows XP, but workaround procedures are available. Click here to skip to the workaround procedures in this document.
Method two: Parallel cable connection
Follow these steps in the order presented to install the product with a parallel cable.
NOTE: In order to use a parallel cable, you must have a parallel port on the computer and on the printer.
  1. Turn off the computer.
  2. Connect the parallel cable to the computer and the printer.
  3. Restart the computer, and then turn the printer on. Windows detects the printer and opens the Found New Hardware window.
  4. Select Locate and Install Driver .
    NOTE: If the User Account Control window opens, click Allow to continue.
    Windows checks whether a driver is available.
  5. On the Windows taskbar, click the Windows icon ( ), and then click Control Panel .
  6. Click Hardware and Sound .
    NOTE: This step is not necessary in Vista Classic View.
  7. Click Printers .
  8. On the top of the Printers window, click Add a printer . The Add Printer wizard opens.
    NOTE: If the User Account Control window opens, click Allow to continue.
  9. Click Add a local printer , and then click Next . The Choose a printer port window opens.
  10. Select Use an existing port , leave the default port of LPT1: (Printer Port) , and then click Next . The Install the printer driver window opens.
  11. Click HP in the list of manufacturers.
  12. Click your HP product in the list of printers, and then click Next . The Name your printer window opens.
    NOTE: If your printer is not listed, click HP Deskjet 500c . This alternate driver might provide basic functionality.
  13. Type a name for the product in the Printer name box, or accept the default printer name, and then click Next . The printer driver installs.
  14. After the installation completes, click Print a test page .
  15. Click Finish when the test page prints, or click Troubleshoot if the test page does not print correctly.
Workaround procedures
The basic driver that you installed from the Windows Vista operating system is sufficient printing from a software program, and for importing and viewing images on a memory card.
Printing
Use these steps to print from a software program.
  1. Open the document to be printed in the software application in which it was created.
  2. Click File , and then click Print .
Importing and viewing images on a memory card
If your product has a memory card slot, follow these steps to access images on a memory card.
  1. Insert the memory card into the appropriate memory card slot on the product.
    NOTE: If the memory card is already inserted, remove it, and then reinsert it.
  2. On the Autoplay window that opens, click Import Pictures , View Pictures , or Open folder to view files .
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions.


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